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*{{flagicon|ITA}} Third or fourth-placed team of [[2017–18 Serie A]] |
*{{flagicon|ITA}} Third or fourth-placed team of [[2017–18 Serie A]] |
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*{{flagicon|FRA}} Runners-up of [[2017–18 Ligue 1]] |
*{{flagicon|FRA}} Runners-up of [[2017–18 Ligue 1]] |
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*{{flagicon|FRA}} Winners of [[2017–18 UEFA Europa League]] ''(Pot 1 if Europa League title holders)'' |
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*{{flagicon|TUR}} Champions of [[2017–18 Süper Lig]] |
*{{flagicon|TUR}} Champions of [[2017–18 Süper Lig]] |
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*{{flagicon|CZE}} Champions of [[2017–18 Czech First League]] |
*{{flagicon|CZE}} Champions of [[2017–18 Czech First League]] |
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 The Wanda Metropolitano in Madrid will host the final. | |
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| Dates | Qualifying: 26 June – 29 August 2018 Competition proper: 18 September 2018 – 1 June 2019 |
| Teams | Competition proper: 32 Total: 79 or 80 (from 54 associations) |
The 2018–19 UEFA Champions League will be the 64th season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA, and the 27th season since it was renamed from the European Champion Clubs' Cup to the UEFA Champions League.
The final will be played at the Wanda Metropolitano in Madrid, Spain.[1]
The winners of the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League will earn the right to play against the winners of the 2018–19 UEFA Europa League in the 2019 UEFA Super Cup.
Format changes
On 9 December 2016, UEFA confirmed the reforming plan for the UEFA Champions League for the 2018–2021 cycle, which was announced on 26 August 2016.[2][3] As per the new regulations, the previous season's UEFA Europa League winners will qualify automatically for the UEFA Champions League group stage. Meanwhile, the top four teams from the leagues of the four top-ranked national associations in the UEFA country coefficients list will qualify automatically for the group stage as well.[2] Only six teams will qualify for the group stage via the qualification rounds, down from ten in the previous season.[4]
Association team allocation
A total of 79 or 80 teams from 54 of the 55 UEFA member associations participate in the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League (the exception being Liechtenstein, which does not organise a domestic league). The association ranking based on the UEFA country coefficients is used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:[4]
- Associations 1–4 each have four teams qualify.
- Associations 5–6 each have three teams qualify.
- Associations 7–15 each have two teams qualify.
- Associations 16–55 (except Liechtenstein) each have one team qualify.
- The winners of the 2017–18 UEFA Champions League and 2017–18 UEFA Europa League are each given an additional entry if they do not qualify for the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League through their domestic league.
- The winners of the 2017–18 UEFA Champions League, either Real Madrid or Liverpool, have qualified through their domestic league, meaning the additional entry for the Champions League title holders is not necessary.
Association ranking
For the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League, the associations are allocated places according to their 2017 UEFA country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 2012–13 to 2016–17.[5]
Apart from the allocation based on the country coefficients, associations may have additional teams participating in the Champions League, as noted below:
- (UCL) – Additional berth for UEFA Champions League title holders
- (UEL) – Additional berth for UEFA Europa League title holders
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Distribution
In the default access list, the Champions League title holders qualify for the group stage.[6][4] However, since both Real Madrid and Liverpool already qualified for the group stage via their domestic league (as top four of the 2017–18 La Liga or the 2017–18 Premier League), the following changes to the access list will be made[citation needed]:
- The champions of association 11 (Czech Republic) will enter the group stage instead of the play-off round.
- The champions of association 13 (Netherlands) will enter the play-off round instead of the third qualifying round.
- The champions of associations 18 (Denmark), 19 (Belarus), 20 (Poland), and 21 (Sweden) will enter the second qualifying round instead of the first qualifying round.
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| Preliminary round (4 teams) |
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| First qualifying round (30 teams) |
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| Second qualifying round | Champions Path (22 teams) |
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| League Path (6 teams) |
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| Third qualifying round | Champions Path (12 teams) |
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| League Path (8 teams) |
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| Play-off round | Champions Path (8 teams) |
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| League Path (4 teams) |
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| Group stage (32 teams) |
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| Knockout phase (16 teams) |
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Changes will be made to the access list above, if the Europa League title holders qualify for the tournament via their domestic leagues.[4]
- If the Europa League title holders qualify for the group stage via their domestic league, the third-placed team of association 5 (France) will enter the group stage, and runners-up of the highest-ranked associations in the second qualifying round will also be promoted accordingly.
- If the Europa League title holders qualify for the qualifying rounds via their domestic league, their spot in the qualifying rounds is vacated, and teams of the highest-ranked associations in earlier rounds will be promoted accordingly.
Teams
NOTE: The following list of qualified teams is provisional, subject to final confirmation by UEFA in June 2018, as each participating team must obtain a UEFA club license. All qualified teams are included in this list as long as they have not been banned by UEFA or have not failed their final appeal with their football association on obtaining a license. |
League positions of the previous season shown in parentheses (TH: Champions League title holders; EL: Europa League title holders).[6][7]
- Notes
- ^ Albania (ALB): In March 2018, Skënderbeu Korçë was handed a 10-year ban from UEFA club competitions over match fixing.[8] Since they finished as champions of the 2017–18 Albanian Superliga, Kukësi, the runners-up of the league, will enter the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League instead of the 2018–19 UEFA Europa League.
- ^ Czech Republic (CZE): Viktoria Plzeň have qualified for the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League as they will finish in the top two of the 2017–18 Czech First League.
- ^ France (FRA): Marseille will play Atlético Madrid (who have already qualified for the Champions League group stage through their league) in the 2018 UEFA Europa League Final. If Atlético win, the berth awarded to the Europa League winners will pass to the third-place team from France. Thus, France is assured of three berths in the group stage: the top two of the 2017–18 Ligue 1 and either the Europa League winners or the third-place team from Ligue 1. If the third-place team is moved to the group stage, the runners-up from Turkey and the Czech Republic will move from the second qualifying round to the third qualifying round.
Round and draw dates
The schedule of the competition is as follows (all draws are held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, unless stated otherwise).[9]
| Phase | Round | Draw date | First leg | Second leg |
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| Preliminary | Preliminary round | 12 June 2018 | 26 June 2018 (semi-final round) | 29 June 2018 (final round) |
| Qualifying | First qualifying round | 19 June 2018 | 10–11 July 2018 | 17–18 July 2018 |
| Second qualifying round | 24–25 July 2018 | 31 July – 1 August 2018 | ||
| Third qualifying round | 23 July 2018 | 7–8 August 2018 | 14 August 2018 | |
| Play-off | Play-off round | 6 August 2018 | 21–22 August 2018 | 28–29 August 2018 |
| Group stage | Matchday 1 | 30 August 2018 (Monaco) |
18–19 September 2018 | |
| Matchday 2 | 2–3 October 2018 | |||
| Matchday 3 | 23–24 October 2018 | |||
| Matchday 4 | 6–7 November 2018 | |||
| Matchday 5 | 27–28 November 2018 | |||
| Matchday 6 | 11–12 December 2018 | |||
| Knockout phase | Round of 16 | 17 December 2018 | 12–13 & 19–20 February 2019 | 5–6 & 12–13 March 2019 |
| Quarter-finals | 15 March 2019 | 9–10 April 2019 | 16–17 April 2019 | |
| Semi-finals | 19 April 2019 | 30 April – 1 May 2019 | 7–8 May 2019 | |
| Final | 1 June 2019 at Wanda Metropolitano, Madrid | |||
From this season, there will be staggered kick-off times – 18:55 CET and 21:00 CET.[6]
Preliminary round
Note: All qualified teams below are listed with their 2018 UEFA club coefficients (CC).[10] A new club coefficient system will be used for seeding starting from the 2018–19 season, which is calculated by the maximum of either the club points in the previous five years or 20% of the association points over the same period (instead of the sum of the two values). In cases where the club coefficients are to be determined (teams from their associations are still active in 2017–18 UEFA club competitions), the latest club coefficients are listed.
In the preliminary round, teams are drawn into one-legged semi-final and final ties. The losers enter the 2018–19 UEFA Europa League second qualifying round.
The draw for the preliminary round will be held on 12 June 2018. The semi-final round will be played on 26 June, and the final round will be played on 29 June 2018, both at the Victoria Stadium in Gibraltar.[11]
A total of four teams are expected to play in the preliminary round.
FC Santa Coloma CC: 2.750
Champions of 2017–18 Gibraltar Premier Division
Champions of 2017–18 Campionato Sammarinese di Calcio
Champions of 2017–18 Football Superleague of Kosovo
Qualifying rounds
In the qualifying and play-off rounds, teams are divided into seeded and unseeded teams based on their 2018 UEFA club coefficients,[10] and then drawn into two-legged home-and-away ties.
First qualifying round
The draw for the first qualifying round will be held on 19 June 2018. The first legs will be played on 10 and 11 July, and the second legs will be played on 17 and 18 July 2018.
A total of 30 teams are expected to play in the first qualifying round: 29 teams which enter in this round, and the winners of the preliminary round. The losers enter the 2018–19 UEFA Europa League second qualifying round.
Ludogorets Razgrad CC: 37.000
Celtic CC: 31.000
APOEL CC: 27.000
Astana CC: 21.750
Qarabağ CC: 20.500
Sheriff Tiraspol CC: 14.750
Red Star Belgrade CC: 10.750
Hapoel Be'er Sheva CC: 10.000
Rosenborg CC: 9.000
HJK CC: 8.000
The New Saints CC: 5.000
Kukësi CC: 4.250
Zrinjski Mostar CC: 3.750
Shkëndija CC: 3.500
F91 Dudelange CC: 3.500
Spartak Trnava CC: 3.500
Valletta CC: 3.250
Víkingur Gøta CC: 3.000
Crusaders CC: 3.000
Sutjeska Nikšić CC: 2.500
Sūduva Marijampolė CC: 2.000
Cork City CC: 1.750
Spartaks Jūrmala CC: 1.750
Valur CC: 1.650
Flora Tallinn CC: 1.250
Torpedo Kutaisi CC: 1.000
Champions of 2017–18 Slovenian PrvaLiga
Champions of 2017–18 Nemzeti Bajnokság I
Champions of 2017–18 Armenian Premier League
Second qualifying round
The second qualifying round is split into two separate sections: Champions Path (for league champions) and League Path (for league non-champions). The losers from both Champions Path and League Path enter the 2018–19 UEFA Europa League third qualifying round.
The draw for the second qualifying round will be held on 19 June 2018 (after the completion of the first qualifying round draw). The first legs will be played on 24 and 25 July, and the second legs will be played on 31 July and 1 August 2018.
A total of 28 teams are expected to play in the second qualifying round:
Champions Path
Seven teams which enter in this round, and the 15 winners of the first qualifying round.
Red Bull Salzburg CC: 55.500
BATE Borisov CC: 20.500
Dinamo Zagreb CC: 17.500
Malmö FF CC: 14.000
Champions of 2017–18 Liga I
Champions of 2017–18 Danish Superliga
Champions of 2017–18 Ekstraklasa
League Path
Six teams which enter in this round.
Basel CC: 71.000
Ajax CC: 53.500
PAOK CC: 29.500- Sturm Graz CC: 6.570
Runners-up of 2017–18 Süper Lig
Runners-up of 2017–18 Czech First League
Third qualifying round
The third qualifying round is split into two separate sections: Champions Path (for league champions) and League Path (for league non-champions). The losers from the Champions Path enter the 2018–19 UEFA Europa League play-off round, while the losers from the League Path enter the 2018–19 UEFA Europa League group stage.
The draw for the third qualifying round will be held on 23 July 2018. The first legs will be played on 7 and 8 August, and the second legs will be played on 14 August 2018.
A total of 20 teams are expected to play in the third qualifying round:
Champions Path
One team which enters in this round, and the 11 Champions Path winners of the second qualifying round.
- AEK Athens CC: 10.000
League Path
Five teams which enter in this round, and the three League Path winners of the second qualifying round.
Benfica CC: 80.000
Dynamo Kyiv CC: 62.000
Spartak Moscow CC: 13.500
Third-placed team of 2017–18 Ligue 1
Runners-up of 2017–18 Belgian First Division A
Play-off round
The play-off round is split into two separate sections: Champions Path (for league champions) and League Path (for league non-champions). The losers from both Champions Path and League Path enter the 2018–19 UEFA Europa League group stage.
The draw for the play-off round will be held on 6 August 2018. The first legs will be played on 21 and 22 August, and the second legs will be played on 28 and 29 August 2018.
A total of twelve teams play in the play-off round:
Champions Path
Two teams which enter in this round, and the six Champions Path winners of the third qualifying round.
- PSV Eindhoven CC: 36.000
- Young Boys CC: 20.500
League Path
The four League Path winners of the third qualifying round.
Group stage
The draw for the group stage will be held on 30 August 2018 at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco. The 32 teams are drawn into eight groups of four, with the restriction that teams from the same association cannot be drawn against each other. For the draw, the teams are seeded into four pots based on the following principles (introduced starting this season):[12]
- Pot 1 contains the Champions League and Europa League title holders, and the champions of the top six associations based on their 2017 UEFA country coefficients. If either or both title holders are one of the champions of the top six associations, the champions of the next highest ranked association(s) are also seeded into Pot 1.
- Pot 2, 3 and 4 contain the remaining teams, seeded based on their 2018 UEFA club coefficients.
In each group, teams play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners and runners-up advance to the round of 16, while the third-placed teams enter the 2018–19 UEFA Europa League round of 32. The matchdays are 18–19 September, 2–3 October, 23–24 October, 6–7 November, 27–28 November, and 11–12 December 2018.
The youth teams of the clubs that qualify for the group stage also participate in the 2018–19 UEFA Youth League on the same matchdays, where they compete in the UEFA Champions League Path (the youth domestic champions of the top 32 associations compete in a separate Domestic Champions Path until the play-offs).
A total of 32 teams play in the group stage: 26 teams which enter in this stage, and the six winners of the play-off round (four from Champions Path, two from League Path).
Bayern Munich CC: 135.000 (Pot 1)
Barcelona CC: 132.000 (Pot 1)
Juventus CC: 126.000 (Pot 1)- Paris Saint-Germain CC: 109.000 (Pot 1)
Manchester City CC: 100.000 (Pot 1)- Lokomotiv Moscow CC: 22.500 (Pot 1)
- Real Madrid CC: TBD (160.000) (Pot 1 if Champions League title holders otherwise Pot 2)
- Atlético Madrid CC: TBD (138.000) (Pot 1 if Europa League title holders otherwise Pot 2)
- Borussia Dortmund CC: 89.000 (Pot 2)
- Porto CC: 86.000 (Pot 2)
- Manchester United CC: 82.000 (Pot 2)
- Shakhtar Donetsk CC: 81.000 (Pot 2)
- Napoli CC: 78.000 (Pot 2)
- Tottenham Hotspur CC: 67.000
- Roma CC: 64.000
- Liverpool CC: TBD (62.000) (Pot 1 if Champions League title holders)
- Schalke 04 CC: 62.000
- CSKA Moscow CC: 45.000
- Valencia CC: 36.000
- Club Brugge CC: 29.500
- 1899 Hoffenheim CC: 14.285 (Pot 4)
- Third or fourth-placed team of 2017–18 Serie A
- Runners-up of 2017–18 Ligue 1
- third-placed team of 2017–18 Ligue 1 or Winners of 2017–18 UEFA Europa League (Pot 1 if Europa League title holders)
- Champions of 2017–18 Süper Lig
- Champions of 2017–18 Czech First League
Knockout phase
In the knockout phase, teams play against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis, except for the one-match final. The mechanism of the draws for each round is as follows:
- In the draw for the round of 16, the eight group winners are seeded, and the eight group runners-up are unseeded. The seeded teams are drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the second leg. Teams from the same group or the same association cannot be drawn against each other.
- In the draws for the quarter-finals onwards, there are no seedings, and teams from the same group or the same association can be drawn against each other.
Round of 16
The draw for the round of 16 will be held on 17 December 2018. The first legs will be played on 12, 13, 19 and 20 February, and the second legs will be played on 5, 6, 12 and 13 March 2019.
Quarter-finals
The draw for the quarter-finals will be held on 15 March 2019. The first legs will be played on 9 and 10 April, and the second legs will be played on 16 and 17 April 2019.
Semi-finals
The draw for the semi-finals will be held on 19 April 2019. The first legs will be played on 30 April and 1 May, and the second legs will be played on 7 and 8 May 2019.
Final
The final will be played on 1 June 2019 at the Wanda Metropolitano in Madrid. The "home" team (for administrative purposes) will be determined by an additional draw held after the semi-final draw.
See also
- 2018–19 UEFA Europa League
- 2019 UEFA Super Cup
- 2018–19 UEFA Women's Champions League
- 2018–19 UEFA Youth League
References
- ^ "Madrid's Estadio Metropolitano to host 2019 Champions League final". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 20 September 2017. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
- ^ a b "Evolution of UEFA club competitions for 2018–21 cycle". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 26 August 2016. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
- ^ "Lyon to host 2018 UEFA Europa League final". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 9 December 2016. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
- ^ a b c d "Access list for the 2018/19 UEFA club competitions" (PDF). UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 27 February 2018. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
- ^ "Country coefficients 2016/17". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 6 June 2017. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
- ^ a b c "Champions League and Europa League changes next season". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 27 February 2018. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
- ^ Kassies, Bert (4 March 2018). "Qualification for European Cup Football 2018/2019". kassiesA. Retrieved 5 March 2018.
- ^ "Albania's Skenderbeu handed 10-year ban over match-fixing in worst ever UEFA punishment". Tirana Times. 29 March 2018.
- ^ "2018/19 Champions League match and draw calendar". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 9 January 2018. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
- ^ a b "Club coefficients". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 23 February 2018. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
- ^ "1st ever Champions League Preliminary Round competition to be held in Gibraltar". Gibraltar Football Association. 26 April 2018.
- ^ "2018/19 UEFA Champions League regulations" (PDF). UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 10 May 2018. Retrieved 12 May 2018.
External links
- UEFA Champions League (official website)